First published in 1865, Lewis Carroll’s endearing tales of an imaginative child’s dream world are written with charming simplicity.
While delighting children with a heroine who represents their own thoughts and feelings about growing up, the tale is appreciated by adults as a gentle satire on education, politics, literature, and Victorian life in general.
All the delightful and bizarre inhabitants of Wonderland are here: the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, the hooka-smoking Caterpillar and the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Ugly Duchess…and, of course, Alice herself—growing alternately taller and smaller, attending demented tea parties and eccentric croquet games and observing everything with clarity and rational amazement.
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"I didn't really know what to expect going into is one, but I loved the nonsensical, dreamlike story. I didn't read a whole lot into it, so I look forward to watching the Coursera lectures to see what I missed and moving on to Through the Looking Glass. I also enjoyed Carroll's straight forward prose, which I didn't expect from an 1860's novel, but legal reading has probably jaded me."
— Dick (4 out of 5 stars)
" A very whimsical read and I thought it was funny that this little girl was very smart and would try to be logical. A timeless classic. "
— Shadowlove3, 2/18/2014" This classic children's tale is darker than the Disney movie. A must read to find out the author's original story. "
— Larry, 2/10/2014" I am sorry, i think lewis carroll was going a bit crazy when he wrote this book, such a confusing book "
— Mackie, 2/8/2014" Heel goed, maar... zo kort?! "
— Edelhart, 2/7/2014" This book is amazing. It is written as if it were a dream, and the poetry in it, is absolutely fabulous. I'm wondering why I haven't read this book earlier.. This is my new favourite book, it's written very lovely and the story is magnificant. Wow. Amazing! "
— Mariska, 1/31/2014" You will always, ALWAY, learn something new from reading this. Don't ever neglect the masterpieces that LC wrote just cause you watched the damned Disney Movies. "
— Jit, 1/26/2014" I didn't like this story as much as the first story of Alice. I did in fact recognized some of the characters that were put into Disney's cartoon, "Alice in Wonderland", though such as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, and the talking flowers in the garden. I didn't realize it was actually two stories combined into one until I read both books. All in all, a very creative and inventive story. "
— Katrina, 1/21/2014" Forget the Disney version, go for the source material! "
— Bill, 1/12/2014" I liked these books far more than I thought I would. However, I felt like there were parts of TTLG where Dodgson (aka Carroll) seemed to be pining for Alice in a way that made me uncomfortable. All in all, I'm glad I finally read these, but I still am not a fan of the Disney Alice. "
— M., 11/20/2013" I must admit that this book, which I read as a child, absolutely failed to grab me. One day maybe I will try again. "
— Pippa222, 11/12/2013" Although this book is imaginative and 'colorful' I never enjoyed it. Too disjointed for me "
— Jeanne, 11/3/2013Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), English author, mathematician, and photographer. One of eleven children of a scholarly country parson, he studied mathematics at Oxford, obtained a university post, and then was ordained as a deacon but found true success with his masterpiece, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, now known as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which originated as a story told to a young friend, Alice Liddell, during a boating trip on the Thames. Among his other works are Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, The Hunting of the Snark, and Jabberwocky.
Michael Page has been recording audiobooks since 1984 and has over two hundred titles to his credit. He has won numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. As a professional actor, he has performed regularly since 1998 with the Peterborough Players in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He is a professor of theater at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.